Descriptive and informative facts about Patent Ductus Arteriosus focusing on its clinical features, physical findings, natural course and diagnostic work up. The diagnostic work up does not include Echocardiography in this presentation.
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Flow through PDA depends on…
Size and
resistance
of Ductus
PVR:SVR
PVR
SVR
PVR: Pulmonary Vascular Resistance
SVR: Systemic Vascular Resistance
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Hemodynamic changes
At birth • High PVR, minimal L-R shunt, less symptoms
At 6-8
weeks
• PVR falls, increase in L-R shunts(Qp), symptoms
starts, PAH starts to develop
With time
• PVR gradually rises
• PVOD develops
• Right Ventricular failure
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• Blood flows from Aorta to PA both
in systole and diastole
• Increase in Qp
• Increased Pulmonary venous
return to LA
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• Increase in preload
• LV increases its stroke volume
• Dilatation and hypertrophy of LV
• Dilatation of Aorta
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History
Key points
Prematurity
Maternal rash in the first trimester
High altitude
Down syndrome/ Edward Syndrome/
Char syndrome
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Hemodynamic classification of PDA
PDA
Small
PDA
Moderate
PDA
Large
• Qp/Qs: <1.5
• LA/LV not dilated
• Normal PA pressure
• Shunt depends on the
size of the PDA
• Qp/Qs: >1.5-2
• LA/LV dilated
• PA pressure mildly
elevated /normal
• Shunts depend on
PVR:SVR ratio
• Qp/Qs: >2
• LA/LV dilated
• PA pressure elevated
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Neonatal presentation
Common Presentation
Respiratory Distress
Feeding Difficulty
Diaphoresis
Shock
IVH
Necrotizing Enterocolitis
Signs
Syndromic facies
Microcephaly
Cataract
Tachypnoea
Tachycardia
Signs
Bounding pulses
Hypotension with widened
pulse pressure
Not “typical” Continuous
Murmur
Crackles at lung bases
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• Asymptomatic
• Incidental detection
of systolic/
continuous murmur
• Unremarkable ECG
and Chest Xray
Small PDA Silent PDA
• Too tiny to
produce murmur
• Diagnosed by
echocardiography
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Large PDA
• Will be similar
to that of
moderate PDA,
but the
severity is
more.
Symptoms
• Severe failure to
thrive
• Bounding pulses
• Wide pulse pressure
• CHF
Signs
• Hyperdynamic precordium, chest deformity
• Forceful ill-sustained shifted apex
• Thrill at left upper chest
• P2 palpable, Loud S2
• Short systolic murmur, MDM, S3
Precordial
Findings
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Eisenmenger Physiology
Symptoms
• Less frequent
episodes of RTI
• Leg “fatigue”
• Duskiness of the
toes, with pink
fingers
Signs
• Sat UL- Normal
LL- <90%
• Toes- clubbed
• Features of right
heart failure
Precordium
• Apex not shifted
• Single S2,Loud P2
• Continuous PDA
murmur not
found
• Mid-diastolic
murmur of PR
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Physical findings…explained
Wide Pulse Pressure:
• Increase in the preload of LV
Increase stroke volume into the aorta
Aortic systolic pressure is elevated
• The diastolic pressure is lowered because of a good amount of blood
flow into the PA and not the descending Aorta (Diastolic run-off)
Ref: Pocket book of Pediatric Cardiology, 2nd Ed
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The Continuous machinery murmur
described by Gibson:
• Begins after S1
• Rises to a peak in late systole, near S2
• Continuous through second heart sound,
uninterrupted into diastole
• Declines in intensity during the course of
diastole
• Multiple clicks
Ref: Pocket book of Pediatric Cardiology, 2nd Ed
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• The duration of diastolic murmur of the PDA reflects the PA pressure
As the PVR rises the PA and Ao diastolic pressure equalizes.
The duration of the diastolic murmur shortens leaving a holosystolic murmur.
With Right to Left shunt, the
ductus is “Silent”.
With increasing PVR, the systolic portion of
murmur shortens
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Mid-diastolic murmur:
• An apical mid-diastolic murmur suggests a large left-to-right shunt
through the PDA, resulting in a large volume of blood flow crossing a
normal mitral valve.
• This murmur cannot be heard unless the diastolic portion of the
continuous murmur is decreased by an increase in PVR.
REF:POCKET GUIDE PEDIATRIC CARDIOLOGY
PERLOFF’S CLINICAL RECOGNITION OF CONGENITAL
HEART DISEASE, 6TH ED
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• The second heart sound is “paradoxical” in PDA,
• The A2 component closes later than the P2 component as it takes
more time to eject more blood from the LV
• The RV ejecting less blood than the LV, closes early
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Diagnostic Work up
• Chest X-ray
• ECG
• Echocardiography
• Multi slice cardiac CT with CT Angiogram
• Cardiac Catheterization
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ECG
• Normal sinus rhythm
• H/R 100/min
• Normal Axis
• LA enlargement:
Bifid or Biphasic P waves
• LV hypertrophy
• Deep Q waves
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• Echocardiography is an efficient tool for diagnosis and evaluation for
PDA.
• Cardiac catheterization done when….
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Cardiac Catheterization… when to do it?
Diagnosis
Shunt
Magnitiude
PVRI:SVRI
Additional
lesions, eg
Co-Arctaion
Therapeutic
(Device
closure)
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Catheter Trajectory
Venous Access:
IVC RA RV PA Ao
Catheter easily passes from PA to Ao
through PDA
Takes a specific “Hair Pin” appearance
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• Pressure Measurement:
RA RV Individual branch PA
MPA pressure tends to be higher if the catheter tip is near the orifice
The descending aortic pressure is recorded after the duct is crossed.
• Oxymtery: RV to PA step up usually confirms PDA. A step up of 6% is
taken to be significant
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• Arterial Access:
Aortography: for visualization and
assessment of PDA and any associated Co-
arctation
LV graphy : to see any associated VSD
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Choice of view
Left lateral ( 90 degree) Right Anterior oblique view(45◦)
degree)
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Haemodynamic
data
Site Without O2 With O2
SO2 Pressure SO2 Pressure
SVC 76 82
IVC 68 71
RA 74 80
RV 76 82
PA 82 100/53/67 90 100/48/66
AO 91.7 100/55/70 98.1 105/67/88
PV 99 100
Parameter Without
Oxygen
With
Oxygen
L/min/m2 BSA
QP 7.18 13.8
QS 5.49 5.44
Qp : Qs 1.3:1 2.54
PVRI 7.94 4.49
SVRI 11.29WU 15.07WU
PVR/SVR 0.703 0.313
FLOW AND RESISTENCE CALCULATION
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Differential Diagnosis
Points in favor Points against
Aorto Pulmonary Window • Bounding Pulse, Wide Pulse P
• Continuous machinery murmur
• Murmur found in left 3rd ICS
• Louder systolic component
• Clicks not found
• Does not peak at S2.
RSOV • Continuous murmur
• Bounding Pulse
• Murmur intensity maximum 4/6
in PDA
• Murmur at mid to lower sternal
border on left and right side
• Intensity 5 or 6/6
• Highly palpable thrill
VSD with AR Bounding pulses
Wide pulse pressure
Systolic murmur
• Murmur not continuous when
heard below the clavicle
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Natural history
• The PDA becomes anatomically closed by 15 hours of birth and functionally
closes off by 24-48 post natal hours
• It closes off by the first month in the term neonates, if at all.
• For the preterm babies, it takes a little longer, appropriately with the corrected
gestational age.
• The ductus is more likely to close off in a preterm baby because the ductual
smooth muscle is less responsive to oxygen.
• But in term babies the ductus is patent due to structural abnormality
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• Within early infancy a moderate/large PDA will cause CHF and
recurrent RTI if left untreated.
• If not timely closed large PDA can develop Eisenmenger syndrome,
even in the first decade.
• Although rare in this era, the narrow pulmonary end of the PDA can
develop infected endarteritis, which can dislodge and flow to lungs
• A rare complication after device/ surgical closure of PDA is ductal
aneurysm or rupture.